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I'm happy to announce the release of Apache Subversion 1.9.0-alpha2.
Please choose the mirror closest to you by visiting:
http://subversion.apache.org/download/#pre-releases
The SHA1 checksums are:
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bfbe16a6820d78bf124b779e5c8f641cd9fcc343 subversion-1.9.0-alpha2.zip
2f563294e26d0ec806eef01f2e9e9231cafe3508 subversion-1.9.0-alpha2.tar.gz
PGP Signatures are available at:
http://www.apache.org/dist/subversion/subversion-1.9.0-alpha2.tar.bz2.asc
http://www.apache.org/dist/subversion/subversion-1.9.0-alpha2.tar.gz.asc
http://www.apache.org/dist/subversion/subversion-1.9.0-alpha2.zip.asc
For this release, the following people have provided PGP signatures:
Ben Reser [4096R/16A0DE01] with fingerprint:
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Bert Huijben [4096R/CCC8E1DF] with fingerprint:
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Branko Čibej [4096R/A347943F] with fingerprint:
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Johan Corveleyn [4096R/010C8AAD] with fingerprint:
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Philip Martin [2048R/ED1A599C] with fingerprint:
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Stefan Fuhrmann [4096R/57921ACC] with fingerprint:
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This is a pre-release for what will eventually become Apache Subversion
1.9.0. It does contain some known issues (this list is not exhaustive):
* Several issues with FSX (it is still experimental after all).
* svnserve SASL support is broken.
A pre-release means the Subversion developers feel that this release
is ready for widespread testing by the community. There are known issues
(and unknown ones!), so please use it at your own risk, though we do
encourage people to test this release thoroughly. Of particular note, please
remember than persistent data, such as the working copy or repository
formats may change before the final release, and there may not be an
upgrade path from the pre-releases to the final. In this particular case, since
many of the changes have been to the repository formats and this is
only an alpha it is highly likely that incompatible format changes will be made
before the final 1.9.0 release.
As a note to operating system distro packagers: while we wish to have this
release candidate widely tested, we do not feel that it is ready for packaging
and providing to end-users through a distro package system. Packaging a
release candidate poses many problems, the biggest being that our policy lets
us break compatibility between the release candidate and the final release, if
we find something serious enough. Having many users depending on a release
candidate through their distro would cause no end of pain and frustration that
we do not want to have to deal with. However, if your distro has a branch that
is clearly labeled as containing experimental and often broken software, and
explicitly destined to consenting developers and integrators only, then we're
okay with packaging the release candidate there. Just don't let it near the
end users please.
With all the warnings given, we would especially like feedback on the following:
* New 'svn auth' subcommand.
* New reverse 'svn blame' functionality (-r M:N with M>N).
* Improvements to the interactive conflict resolution menus.
* FSFS format 7.
If you have any thoughts about the changes made in 1.9.0-alpha2 we would really
appreciate your feedback (even if they are not about the above things).
Getting user
feedback this early in the development process provides us an opportunity to make
significant changes we otherwise would not make with a release candidate. Feedback
on 1.9.0-alpha2 should be directed to the users@subversion.apache.org mailing list.
Release notes for the 1.9.x release series may be found at:
http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.9.html
You can find the list of changes between 1.9.0-alpha2 and earlier versions at:
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/tags/1.9.0-alpha2/CHANGES
Questions, comments, and bug reports to users@subversion.apache.org.
Thanks,
- The Subversion Team